Remains of Cholera victims found in Dublin

The remains of people who died during the Great Cholera Epidemic of 1832 have been found during construction in Dublin.

She said records from the 1870s showed the railway yard of the Midlands Great Western Railway at Broadstone was being extended. The company got permission to acquire 3 acres of land near their existing premises and when they were digging, to build foundations for a new boundary wall, railway sidings and an engine shed, they came across the burial ground.

The remains were removed and reinterred in a nearby patch of ground, a walled area.

“I think that is what we are looking at,” Ms Fitzgerald said.

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Story: Fiona Gartland, The Irish Times | Photo: The Irish Times